Proisir on Target for Second Champion NZ Sire Title

Media Release - Tuesday Jul 14

A flurry of recent winners has set up Rich Hill Stud’s champion stallion Proisir for a second champion New Zealand sires’ title.

He has been locked in a close battle with perennial champion Savabeel all season and two months ago it looked like the premiership would go down to the wire.

Proisir

However, Proisir’s progeny have enjoyed a purple patch in recent weeks and he now leads the New Zealand Sires’ Premiership by $330,000 with just under three weeks of the 2025/26 racing season remaining.

It was another stellar day on Saturday for Proisir with a quartet of winners throughout Australasia.

His talented daughter Prioress set the ball rolling with a tenacious win in the open 1200 metre handicap at Hawera.

Debutante Latoya then created a huge impression when she won the two-year-old event at Ruakaka.

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After sitting three wide throughout, the sister to Proisir’s five-time Group1-winning daughter Legarto kicked away to record a dominant win and looks destined for higher honours next season, based on her winning ratings.

Soon after in Sydney, Leovanni displayed a good turn of foot to record her second successive win in the Highway Plate over 1600 metres at Randwick.

To cap off a royal day for Proisir, his daughter Coeur Volante continued her excellent form with a third consecutive win when successful at Caulfield.

Proisir’s biggest and best credentialed foal crops are about to turn two and three and with around 120 rising two and three-year-olds in leading Australasian stables, Rich Hill can look forward to outstanding future racetrack

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